Author | Joshua Ferris |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
Publication date | March 1, 2007 |
Media type | Print ( Hardback) |
Pages | 400 pp (HB 1st edition) |
ISBN | 978-0-316-01638-4 |
OCLC | 62679893 |
813/.6 22 | |
LC Class | PS3606.E774 T47 2007 |
Then We Came to the End is the first novel by Joshua Ferris. It was released by Little, Brown and Company on March 1, 2007. A satire of the American workplace, it is similar in tone to Don DeLillo's Americana, even borrowing DeLillo's first line for its title.
It takes place in a Chicago advertising agency that is experiencing a downturn at the end of the 1990s Internet boom. Ferris employs a first-person-plural narrative.
The book was greeted with positive reviews from GQ, [1] The New York Times, [2] The New Yorker, [3] Esquire, [4] and Slate. [5] The book was named one of the Best Books of 2007 by The New York Times. [6]
Time magazine's Lev Grossman named it one of the Top 10 Fiction Books of 2007, ranking it at #2. [7]
The book won the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel[ citation needed] and the 2007 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. [8] [9]